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ART OF MANUFACTURING RINGS FOR LOOM TEMP LES. N0. 388,155. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

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UNITED STATES EDWARD S. STIMPSON, OF IIOIEDALE,

PATENT OFFICE.

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE DUTCJHGR TEMPLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,155, dated August 21, 1888.

Application filed March .39, 1987.

I To (6 whom it may concern.-

lrle it known that I, Eowwun S. STIMPSON, ot' Hopedale, county of W'orcester,and State of Massachusetts, haveinventcd an improvement in the Art of lllanuiacturing Rings for Loom- Temples, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

Loom temples of the class represented in United States Patent No. 228,256, dated June 1, 1880, contain a series of rings having beveled peripheries provided with teetlutlmteeth, in the rotation of the rings upon a stud or sleeve carrying them, entering the cloth being woven and serving to stretch the same in the direction of its width.

In the manufiietnre of this class of templering considerable ditiicnlty is experienced in 23 boring the holes for the reception of the teeth,

the diiliculty lying chiefly in the glancing of the point of the drill from the beveled surface to be drilled.

In my experiments to devise means whereby the beveled surface-rings might be easily and quickly drilled in proper manner I have dis covered that the points of the drills may be readily made to enter the rings correctly, provided the rings have depressions or recesses 0 for the reception of the point of the drill, to thus prevent it glancing oil" laterally. In ac eordance with my invention I have provided the peripheries of thetemple-rings with one or more annular grooves, according to the nnm- 5 ber of rows of teeth in each ring, the point of the drill readily entering the annular groove, the latter serving to hold the point of the drill in place and preventing it from glancing.

Figurel in elevation shows a temple-ring made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a like view of a ring partially broken out to show holes made therein for the reception of the pins or teeth; Fig. 3, a. like view with two of the pins or teeth inserted. Fig. 4 is a like view ol'a common ring such as used prior to my invention; and F' s. 5, (i, 7, and 8 are partial sections, respectively, of the rings shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4.

. tel'erring tirst to Figs. 1 and S, A represents an ordinary ring, it having a plain beveled pe- 5o riphery, as a, which in practice is with much difficulty drilled for the reception of pins or teeth.

Referring to Fig. 1, h represents a ring sub stantially the same as the ring A, with the ex- 5 ception that the beveled periphery of the ring has one or more than one annular groove, 0 c.

A ring provided with an annular groove or grooves such as shown may be quickly and easily drilled with holes, as (Z, for the recep- 6c tion of teeth or pins, as c, for when the point of the usual drill employed for boring the ring approaches the ring and enters the annular groove it is impossible for the point of thedrill to glance off or to ride down the smooth in- 6 elined periphery of the ring. Providing the rings with annulargroovesordepressions such as shown enables very much time to be saved when making the holes for the reception of the pins.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the holes are marked d. Fig. 3 shows two of the holes as provided with pins 0.

I do not desire to limit my invention to the exact conligu ration in crosssection ol the an- 7 nnlar grooves made in the rings, as they may be modified without. departing from my invention.

I claim The herein described improvement in the art or method of mainifacturing temple-rings, which consists, first, in providing the periphery ofthe said ring with one or more annular grooves or depressions for the reception of the point of the drill, and, second, boring the holes for the reception of pins with the point of the drill in said groove or depressimi,whereby the said drill is prevented from glancing off or being displaced, substantially as described.

Intcstimony whereof] hamsigncd my name 0 to this specification in the presence of two sub scribing witnesses.

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